With gambling now legal in nearly every part of the country, it seems like NFL officials have been under more scrutiny this year. Whenever there’s a bad call, you’ll almost always hear at least one fan scream that the “fix” is in.
Although the NFL has never had to deal with an officiating scandal, there have definitely been instances where officials were approached and asked to manipulate games, according Dean Blandino, who ran the NFL’s officiating department from 2013 through 2017.
During a recent interview on the Awful Announcing Podcast, Blandino was specifically asked if he was aware of any situations where an official might have been approached about fixing a game by impacting “a score or a stat line.”
